This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 405 Rushing Towards the Black Hole

The experiment begins.

As Ye Yang manipulated a large amount of matter to converge, he began refining the Primordial Essence —

The primordial matter manifested, and further compression only reduced it to a fraction of its original size.

Silently and without any warning, a miniature black hole took shape.

"To this day, I still cannot understand how a black hole was born from nothing in that instant."

Ye Yang looked at all this and couldn't help but murmur to himself.

He saw the black hole with perfect clarity in the moments before its birth. But the moment the singularity was born, all descriptions and understandings became pale and meaningless.

I only hope that this experiment will uncover its secrets —

The moment a miniature black hole appears, its angular momentum is already incredibly large, approaching a certain limit.

This is an extreme Kerr black hole!

When the spin speed reaches a certain level, the inner event horizon of a Kerr black hole will overlap with its outer event horizon, the event horizon of the black hole will disappear, and the causal fault that seals the ring singularity will vanish.

The odd ring will then be exposed!

At that time, something terrible will inevitably happen, but Ye Yang will unveil its mystery!

"The experiment exposing the ring singularity back then created an extremely tiny opening along the axis of rotation, at each of the black hole's poles. However, it was precisely this opening that exposed the ring singularity, and a great terror spread throughout the universe at the speed of light through the transmission of cause and effect!"

"Fortunately, it was only two tiny openings, and the light cone that formed in the Milky Way only covered a few dozen stars; otherwise, it might have been a cosmic catastrophe that spread at the speed of light."

Just from the description, Ye Yang felt awe at the sight.

The stars involved vanished into endless flashes of radiation the instant they were enveloped in the light cone of the "exposed rings" event.

However, this is only the surface. After further research, some people have speculated that the area has undergone a creation myth.

Yes, creation.

The exposure of the odd ring would render all the laws of the universe ineffective, plunging everything into chaos. There would be no concept of matter, energy, time, or space; everything would be without beginning or end, a unified whole.

However, the exposure of the ring singularity will cause the black hole's angular momentum to rapidly convert into spacetime fluctuations and diffuse away, slowing down its rotation speed. The event horizon will then completely envelop the ring singularity again, stopping the exposure.

Therefore, the spacetime where all the laws of the universe had failed instantly returned to normal, which was equivalent to the moment when the laws of the universe were first born at the beginning of creation.

Everything begins to evolve anew —

The creation event simulated by the rings is similar to that of a black hole, and it also exhibits causal blocking effects.

Because "that moment" does not exist in time and space, from the perspective of researchers in the normal universe with the concept of "existing spacetime," it happens in an instant when "time" does not exist.

This instant is not an adjective, but a zero time interval in a mathematical sense; it is a true instant.

Without a process, without a time interval, causality cannot be propagated and cannot be observed.

Only results matter.

Regardless of what happened in that instant, Ye Yang knew that it was undoubtedly the key to a higher level.

I just wonder if, standing at the current level of human civilization, he can even touch that realm now.

Ye Yang manipulated the controllable spacetime field and began to endow the miniature black hole with higher angular momentum.

It spins faster and faster—until it reaches a certain limit, and surpasses that limit!

Suddenly frozen—shattered!

The strange ring was exposed, but at that very moment, the "Monitor Rule," one of the underlying rules of the virtual law field designed by Ye Yang, took effect, freezing and recording everything.

However, an unexpected event still occurred, as the previous nine experiments had all failed at this final step.

The virtual law field collapsed and shattered, seemingly having captured something that could not be contained!

Ye Yang sighed, reached out to intervene, and brought everything back on track from chaos.

"Failed again. It seems this approach won't work."

Without prior experience to prove its feasibility, pioneering a new path is incredibly difficult.

The most time-consuming process is the process of trial and error, eliminating incorrect answers.

However, just as he calmed the chaos before him, he discovered a noteworthy fragment of spacetime.

"what?"

Ye Yang held the somewhat special fragment of spacetime in his hand and examined it carefully.

At first glance, it was just a chaotic mess, but Ye Yang's intuition told him that there was some kind of mysterious trace in it, so he used the Great Dao as a ruler to measure it carefully—and soon he gradually felt the indescribable supreme aura within it.

Primal, chaotic, infinite!

That wondrous artistic conception was deeply imprinted in Ye Yang's consciousness, captivating him.

In the blink of an eye, billions of years have passed —

"what?"

He blinked, finally snapping out of his daze.

Looking at the desolate world around him, he sensed his external avatar and calculated that almost 10 months had passed in standard galactic time.

"I'm stunned. Have I been standing here for 81 billion years?"

Ye Yang was utterly astonished.

Fortunately, he entered the instance world from a reference frame outside the Milky Way. The time flow rate of the main world is 10 times that of the instance world, which is 100 times that of the instance world, resulting in a time difference of 10 billion times.

Otherwise, the Immortal Alliance would have to wait for him forever.

Ye Yang looked at his hand again, but there was no longer any special spacetime fragment.

That experiment from back then has long since left no trace in this desolate world.

Only that strange state of mind—primordial, chaotic, and infinite—still existed in his consciousness.

Ye Yang dared not touch it again; if he were to lose himself in thought for billions of years, it would be troublesome.

"Fortunately, my Tai Su Battle Body has been improved so that it consumes very little energy in standby mode, and it will not run out of energy even after hundreds of billions of years of standby."

Ye Yang felt somewhat fortunate that he had only consumed about two percent of his battle physique.

If it were when he had just become a True Monarch, he would have exhausted his energy reserves over thousands of years, and his battle body would have collapsed because he could no longer maintain it.

He left this world. Since the experiment could not succeed, he would first go and clean up the last two level-nine worlds.

"The experiment exposing the ring odds failed, but it left behind some unique things, which I'm currently unable to process. Just sensing them for billions of years—who could bear that?"

Ye Yang shook his head.

The exploration and research of black holes can only take another path.

However, he was reluctant to take that path, as it would likely result in the loss of one of his clones.

Ye Yang now possesses 9+3 instance avatars, 9 of which are from the Devouring World and are connected via Gate 042 of the Heavens.

The other three are in the level eight world connected by Gate 006, which is Ye Yang's laboratory world.

"The instance avatar can be brought to the main world, just like bringing the player-controlled character in the game into reality—through the Gate of the Heavens, I can control the instance avatar to directly enter the black hole and sacrifice myself."

"And when the black hole devours my clone, I can directly observe what's happening inside."

"The information we receive will be transmitted back via the connection to the Gates of All Heavens!"

"My clone died inside, and my consciousness will be reclaimed by the Gate of All Heavens."

This plan looks great, but one thing we can't ignore is time!

Under the spacetime laws of the main world, the flow of time slows down near massive celestial bodies. This phenomenon is even more extreme near black holes, where the flow of time slows down the closer to the event horizon, and eventually it may even stop completely!

Ye Yang was afraid that if he sent a clone of himself into the black hole, he would quickly cross the event horizon, but to his true self outside, it would take hundreds of billions of years to even enter the black hole.

That would be very troublesome, as it would be equivalent to freezing an entire avatar, making it impossible to kill or use.

There are other options, but Ye Yang wouldn't have adopted this plan.

"I'll have to try it sooner or later anyway, so let's go now."

Ye Yang separated a wisp of his consciousness and descended into the second copy of the "Laboratory World" through the Gate of All Heavens No. 006.

This is "Laboratory · Giant Beast · Ye Yang".

Ye Yang casually extracted it, turning it into a sealing bead, and then crushed it, revealing a colossal beast.

They exchanged glances for a moment, then immediately went their separate ways.

That copy of the character time-space traveled to a black hole observatory, preparing to venture into the second-ranked black hole in the Milky Way.

Meanwhile, Ye Yang's first and second clones prepared to enter two level-nine dungeon worlds to wipe out all resistance forces.

The constellation Huqin contains a medium-sized black hole with a mass of 3910 times that of the Sun. This black hole can be considered to have been artificially nurtured. It is the second largest black hole in the Milky Way and the location of the most important black hole research and observation station of the Immortal Alliance.

The golden-horned beast, now shrunk to a size of millions of times, was respectfully led by staff to an observation station closest to the event horizon of the black hole event.

"It failed again—"

Zhu Guang Tianzun sighed, looking at the information Ye Yang had just sent him.

At this moment, he—no, she—was a beautiful young girl with white hair, red eyes, and long hair reaching her waist.

Abstractly speaking, her art style is not realistic, but rather anime-like.

It's like a 3D model of a two-dimensional character has come into reality.

That's just how Zhu Guang is. Aside from maintaining a consistently dignified and handsome image for formal occasions, he usually transforms into all sorts of strange and unusual forms—male or female, old or young, sometimes not even human.

He occasionally uses this kind of anime-style art that wasn't popular in the Milky Way more than a million years ago—besides ancient relics that have lived for millions of years, probably only Ye Yang, a transmigrator, among the new generation, can appreciate it.

"You've arrived."

Zhu Guang put down the documents in his hand. Ever since Ye Yang became the eighth Celestial Venerable of mankind, he had been eager to establish a scientific research cooperation relationship with Ye Yang. He offered various benefits in exchange for the qualification to enter Ye Yang's level 10 dungeon world for exploration in advance.

However, now is not the time, so Ye Yang refused. In the future, if anyone is to go in, it will be a group of high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance.

Ye Yang proposed the idea of ​​collaborative research on black holes, and his previous attempts had also received some help from the Celestial Venerable of Light.

This guy is an incredibly pure seeker of the Dao. Apart from satisfying his desire for the unknown and understanding everything in the universe and all the worlds, his only hobby is creating his own character's face.

He didn't care much about the rest, regarding them merely as tools he could use on his journey to find knowledge.

Ye Yang suspected that Zhu Guang might be an information ascendant—if the Immortal Alliance could obtain the True Immortal-level thinking algorithm theory of the transcendent, there was no reason why Zhu Guang couldn't.

Those who ascend to the highest level of information gather the wisdom of the entire civilization; one person is a civilization in themselves, undoubtedly possessing an innate scientific sage body!

However—over the years, Zhu Guang's cooperation with the four Heavenly Venerables of the Immortal Alliance has been very pleasant, and his behavior has never crossed the line, nor has he arbitrarily possessed or extracted the personalities of others.

Since no wrongdoing was done, those suspicions and conjectures are meaningless.

"Are you really going in?"

"We had previously tried to have the instance master use an instance avatar to try it out, but that True Immortal's instance avatar fell for ten thousand years without ending. In the end, he had to actively dissipate that body to escape."

"I also tried sending a duplicate avatar, but it didn't move for a full 40 years, it was just falling forever."

Zhu Guang looked at Ye Yang and said this.

"It doesn't matter, I just want to experience it for myself," Ye Yang said.

His idea is to enter a black hole once every 100,000 years or a million years!

At the moment of death as he falls into the black hole, Ye Yang's consciousness will linger due to the [Gate of All Heavens], and he will rely on his powerful true self to fully perceive that instant.

Perhaps we can gain something from this.

After bidding farewell to the light, Ye Yang plunged headlong into the black hole ahead.

He even accelerated, reaching 0.999 times the speed of light, and rushed straight in.

Ahead lies a black hole. Because the surrounding starry sky has been cleared by the Immortal Alliance cultivators, not much matter has fallen in, and therefore there is no bright accretion disk.

Despite the distorted starlight, the black hole's photon rings, and the infinitely deep darkness, Ye Yang was still able to clearly discern the boundary of the black hole.

The black hole in front of him gradually expanded, growing larger and larger until it filled Ye Yang's field of vision, exceeding a 180-degree angle, and darkness enveloped Ye Yang behind him.

However, this is just an illusion caused by the propagation of light. The light path is distorted, which creates the illusion of being enveloped by a black hole.

The black hole gradually took over everything, and the cosmos behind it shrank continuously, eventually becoming a small circle behind it.

It was as if everything in the universe was miniaturized within that circle.

As you can see, the starry sky transmitted from the outside world turns dark red and begins to shift infinitely—that's because as Ye Yang goes deeper, the light behind him tries to catch up with him, and after the spacetime transformation, the energy is greatly reduced, and it keeps getting lower and lower.

Until it drops to zero completely!

At that time, it would mean that the speed of Ye Yang's falling spacetime had exceeded the speed of light, and no light could catch up with Ye Yang. Ye Yang would also receive a one-way ticket to the center of the black hole, never to return.

Of course, at that time, the two-way causal chain could not be maintained between all the substances that made up this body. The causal chain broke in one direction, the beginning and the end could not be connected, and the whole no longer existed.

Naturally, one would be unable to maintain thought.

"And then he died."

However, Ye Yang had been looking forward to this moment.

"I'll wait." He smiled as he watched the starlight behind him gradually disappear and dim.

"Even a light-chasing journey of hundreds of thousands of years wouldn't be enough to reach the event horizon, but perhaps a hundred million or even a trillion years might be needed."

"Perhaps we'll never reach it."

"I'll keep going until I come up with a better solution."

Ye Yang continued to fall —

The starlight behind us almost completely disappeared.

The next step is the breaking of the causal chain—but the outside world doesn't know how many tens of thousands of years it will take.

But in that short time, the portion of Ye Yang's consciousness that remained in this clone felt like only a few seconds had passed, while three months had already gone by in the outside world.

"what?"

He suddenly sensed something.

The almost vanished starlight—

Ye Yang's powerful true self had vaguely touched upon something.

That beam of starlight seemed to shine into his consciousness.

"No! It really did get in!"

Ye Yang's eyes widened, and then he quickly shut down all his senses and tried to feel with his heart.

It doesn't require eyes, ears, or skin.

No need for spiritual perception or verification by the Great Dao —

Using only consciousness, thought, and intention—a completely idealistic realm—one can perceive information from external matter.

Is that correct?

"Or rather, these 'external substances' are now one with me."

"The only way to explain it is that I am a part of them, and they are a part of me, so my true self can extend into the past and capture this information."

Ye Yang seemed to be deep in thought.

But he didn't use the Great Dao to refine these starlights, so when did he become one with them?